Modelling of dynamic on-body waist-foot channel at 2.45 GHz

Author

Paraskevopoulos, A. ; Alexandridis, A. ; Lazarakis, F. ; Vardaxoglou, J.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron., Electr. & Syst. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

160

Abstract

In this paper the dynamic communication channel is investigated between wearable antennas mounted on human body. The work has been focused on modelling the on-body waist-to-foot communication channel commonly used in sports and entertainment applications. The influence of body movement during walking and running actions on the channel path loss is investigated. The effect of the antenna type is also accounted by using two different printed antennas, Inverted-F antenna (IFA) and higher mode microstrip patch antenna (HMMPA), operating at 2.45 GHz ISM band. Slow fading effect due to body motion and polarization mismatch of antennas has been studied. For this purpose, extensive EM simulations using an adequate number of different body postures derived from animation software have been done.

Keywords

biomedical communication; fading channels; microstrip antennas; mobile communication; wearable antennas; EM simulations; ISM band; animation software; antenna type; body motion; body movement; body postures; channel path loss; dynamic communication channel; dynamic on-body waist-foot channel; entertainment application; frequency 2.45 GHz; higher mode microstrip patch antenna; human body; inverted-F antenna; on-body waist-to-foot communication channel; polarization mismatch; printed antennas; running action; slow fading effect; sports application; walking action; wearable antennas; Antenna radiation patterns; Dipole antennas; Foot; Hidden Markov models; Legged locomotion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2013 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2013.6711872

Filename

6711872